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FULL DUPLEX SPEAKERPHONE FOR RADIO
AND LAND LINE TELEPHONES
Related Patents
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The present application is related to U.S. Patent
no. 4,378,603, "radio Telephone with Hands-free
Operation" by Bruce C. Eastmond issued on March 29, 1983
and to U.S. Patent no. 4,400,584, "Speakerphone for
Radio and Land line Telephones", by Richard J. Vilmur
issued on August 23, 1983, and both assigned to the
assignee of the present invention.
Background of the Invention
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The present invention relates generally to speaker-
phones, and more particularly to an improved duplex
speakerphone that can advantageously ye utilized in both
radio and land line telephone systems.
In both radio and land line telephone systems, a user
typically communicates by means of a handset that
includes a speaker at one end which is placed close to
the user's ear and a microphone at the other end which is
held close to the user's mouth. In operation one hand of
the user must be used to hold the telephone handset in
its proper orientation thereby leaving the user's only
free hand to accomplish tasks such as driving a vehicle.
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In order to provide a greater degree of freedom for the
user, speakerphones have been developed for use in land-
line telephone systems.
A conventional speakerphone is typically coupled to
the telephone line and, when enabled, allow the user to
move about freely while communicating with another tote-
phone user. Such speakerphones generally either receive
or transmit at a given instant, ire. simplex, and a
comparison of the volume of the two parties is made.
This comparison selects the party speaking the loudest
and determines the mode-receive or transmit. If this
selection did not occur, a feedback, or echo, may disrupt
the communications and, if severe enough, cause an
oscillation in the telephone circuit known as "singing".
Gone type of echo commonly found in telephony it that
of an electrical signal reflection due to imperfect
impudence match at four-wire to two-wire conversion
points commonly called hybrids. Thus, part of a near end
party's speech signals are coupled from his speakerphone
microphone circuit to his speaker circuit A long delay
introduced into this coupled portion of speech may cause
confusion to the speaker and disruption of communique-
lions, ale second form ox echo unique to speakerphones
is that of acoustic coupling between the speaker and the
microphone. Acoustic energy produced by the speaker may
reflect from nearby objects or be coupled directly to the
microphone. This feedback produces a phase delay in the
coupled audio signal making a hollow sounding echo and,
with sufficient audio signal amplification gain, singing
in the telephone circuit.
The conventional solution to echo and singing
problems for speakerphones is the attenuation of the
audio signal in the path having the weakest audio signal
in favor ox the path having the strongest audio signal.
Many techniques have been developed tug switch or
variably attenuate one path or the other. These
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techniques, however, suffer from a number of problems
including inability to accommodate high ambient noise
environments, clipping of speech syllables of the party
attempting to start a conversation on the attenuated
path, and path attenuation uncertainty due to feedback
from the speaker to the microphone when the speaker
amplification has been turned up These problems haze
been reduced by inventions (U.S. Patent 4,378,S03 by
Eastmond and U.S. Patent 4,400,584 by Vilmur) having
unique speech detector circuits and special control
processes.
For true duplex systems, self-adapting echo
cancelers have recently been employed to mitigate ethos
by generating an estimate of the echo and subtracting the
estimate from the signal corrupted by the echo. In this
way, the acoustic coupling of a far end telephone talker
can be removed from the signal generated by the near end
speakerphone microphone without decreasing or switching
the gain available to the near end speakerphone user. In
a similar manner electronic reflections from the hybrid
may be canceled at the near end speakerphone.
The determination of the echo estimate, however, may
not always be calculated properly. Under conditions of
high ambient noise, non-linear distortion, or both
parties talking simultaneously, the echo sample may not
be fully representative of the echo signal. Therefore,
there is a need for full duplex speakerphone which can
provide optimum performance under less than ideal
situations of noise, echo signal distortion, and
simultaneous user speech.
Summary of the Invention
Accordingly, it is a general object of the present
invention to provide a speakerphone that allows duplex
hands-free communications in environments having high
levels of ambient noise.
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It is another object of the present invention to
provide a duplex speakerphone having echo cancellation of
echo signals subject to non-linear distortion.
It is a further object of the present invention to
enable duplex speakerphone operation without telephone air-
cult singing under conditions of simultaneous user speech.
These and other objects are achieved in the present
invention which includes duplex speakerphone circuitry
for providing cancellation of undesired echo between
lo a received signal and a generated transmit signal. A
portion of the received signal is subtracted from the
generated transmit signal, which includes an echo of the
received signal, thereby resulting in a cancellation of
the received signal echo. Likewise a portion of the
lo transmit signal is subtracted from the received signal,
which includes an echo of the transmit signal, thereby
canceling the transmit signal echo. The portion of the
received signal is derived after detection of the
received signal and following cancellation ox the
transmit signal echo. Also, the portion ox the transmit
signal it derived after detection of the transmit signal
and following cancellation of the received signal echo.
Brief Description of the Drawings
Figure 1 is a block diagram of a mobile radio
speakerphone and radio system known from prior art.
Figure 2 is a block diagram of a gain path switching
hands-free speakerphone employing signal detectors to
determine the active speakerphone path.
Figure 3 is a block diagram of a known speakerphone
employing adaptive filters to remove ethos caused by
acoustic coupling and hybrid mismatch.
Figure 4 is a block diagram of a speakerphone in
which the coefficients for the adaptive filter are
determined by a second microphone positioned such that
the acoustic output of the speaker and its associated
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distortion are transformed into an electronic signal by
the second microphone.
Figure 5 is a block diagram of a speakerphone
employing non-linear matching circuitry to shape the
signal input to the adaptive filter such that the
coefficients developed therefrom include predetermined
distortion expected from the speaker. Also, non-linear
matching circuitry may shape the input to the adaptive
filter to account for distortion in the channel between
the speakerphone and the matching hybrid.
Figure 6 is a block diagram of the present invention
in which a land party signal detector enables the
coefficient calculation of an adaptive filter for
canceling the acoustic echo present from speaker to
microphone and a mobile party signal detector enables the
coefficient calculation of the receive signal adaptive
filter for canceling the hybrid echo. Non-linear
matching circuitry may shape the coefficient input signal
to the adaptive filters.
ZOO Figure 7 is a block diagram of an adaptive filter
which may be used in the present invention
Detailed Description of the Preferred Embodiment
A basic mobile radiotelephone system which may
advantageously utilize the hands-free speakerphone of the
present invention is shown in Figure 1. In conventional
and cellular radiotelephone systems, a party in a vehicle
101 communicates by way of a mobile radio 103 with a
radio base station 105 may be connected to a land party
via a radio system control terminal 107 and the public
switched telephone network. Among other things, the
radio system control terminal 107 includes control
circuitry 10~ which provides a communications path from
the radio base station 105 to a four-wire to two-wire
converter, or hybrid, 111 for conversion to the
conventional two-wire pair used in land telephony.
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In order to provide the mobile party with the tame
quality of telephone service that a land party receives,
it I necessary that each radio channel of the
radiotelephone system be duplex radio cleanly, having
5 separate transmit end receive radio frequeneie6, Tub,
the mobile radio 103 may be simultaneously tran6mi~ting
on one frequency and receiving on the other, such that
both the mobile and land parties may ~i~Dultaneously talk
and listen. Typically a h~ndsee, . imllar to handsets
10 found on land ire telephone in~trumen~s, connected So
the mobile radio 103. It err that the mobile
party hold the handset up eon hi ear Utah a a land prey
doe It would ye much safer and convening for the
mobile party, however, if the conversation during a
15 telephone call could be achieved without the necessity of
continuous physical involvement of the oboe party.
By utilizing a speakerphone the mobile patty on converse
with the land party for the duration of the telephone
Hall with no required physical action, eye freeing the
20 mobile party of task which would ine~rfs~e with the safe
operaelon of the vehicle. Moreover, Rome; states have
motor vehicle relation requiring, aye mobile party
top the vehicle when dialing writher party' number. As
u result many radiotelephone control and vialing unit
25 provide for on-hook automatic dialing ox telephone
slumber However, eke handset must still be removed by
the mobile party for. conversation. By utilizing the
prevent invention, vehicular safety it enhanced further
since the speakerphone all the mobile prey to
30 converse without the necessity of removing one of hi
hands from the steering wheel
In land line application, the ~peskerphone of eke
prevent invention can likewise lye used Jo allow freedom
of movement during conversation and mull party
35 conference calls. The speaker phone can be coupled Jo a
telephone line via a hybrid interface which may couple a
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near end transmit signal to the telephone line and couple
a receive far end signs from the telephone line to the
speakerphone .
In order to provide for hands-free operation in
5 vehicular applications, a separate microphone 113 and
operate speaker 115 can be provided for voice
communications. It is advantageous to utilize a separate
microphone 113 in a vehicle in order to optimally locate
the microphone 113 for receiving the unfree party' 5
10 speech on a changing and noisy environment
At essay two ours of feedback operate in a
speakerphone. The first eye of feedback it reflection
: of the hand free purity signal by the our wire to two-
wire conversion hybrid 111 e This it illustrated as the
side tone peck 117 reflected from the impedance mismatch
between the hybrid 111 of the control terminal 107 end
the witched telephone network. An additional reflection
may occur at the far end land party' 8 hybrid trot shown)
and be delayed by a period of time proportional to the
electrical distance of the land party from the control
terminal 107.
- The second type of feedback it what of acoustic
coupling between the speakerphone speaker 11 S end the
speakerphone microphone 113. This acoustic coupling may
25 be the result of reflections of the acoustic energy
emitted my speaker 115 from surfaces in the special
regions near the speaker 115 Jo the microphone 113. The
acoustic coupling may also be direct coupling of acoustic
energy from the speaker 115 to the microphone 113. The
30 effect of the acoustic coupling it a hollow echo
presented to the land party and, if the amplification
grin of the loop (from hybrid 111 to transmitter 118,
mobile radio 103, speaker 115, microphone 113, mobile
radio 103, receiver 119, and hybrid 111~ it treat enough,
35 oscillation (swooning will result making any conversation
impossible .
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Referring to Figure 2, there is illustrated a block
diagram of hands-free speakerphone control circuitry
which has been used for mobile radiotelephone service.
Such a speakerphone has been described in U.S. Patent no.
4,378,603, "Radiotelephone With Hands-Free Operation" by
Bruce C. Eastmond, issued March 29, 1983 and U.S. Patent
no. 4,400,584, "speakerphone For Radio And Land line
Telephones" by Richard J. Vilmur issued August 23, 1983.
Both of these patents are assigned to the assignee of the
present invention. The control circuitry of Figure 2 may
be located either in the mobile radio equipment 103 or in
a separate equipment box utilized by conventional
radiotelephone for interfacing control and other
functions with the mobile radio 103.
The hands-free control circuitry interfaces
microphone 113 and speaker 115 (which deal with the low
frequency or base band frequency of the radio link) to
mobile radio transmitter 201 and mobile radio receiver
203, respectively. Two audio switches 205 and 207 are
included which open to block or close to pass the audio
signals from the microphone 113 or to the speaker 115 in
response to a control signal from control logic 209.
Thus, in this conventional speakerphone, only on path is
closed at any given time by switches 205 and 207 and only
one side of the conversation passes through the
speakerphone. Each of the audio path Allah includes gain
stages 21l and 213 in the microphone audio path and gain
stages 215 and 217 in the speaker audio path. Amplifier
217 in the speaker audio path may have a variable gain
or controlling the volume of speaker 115. Additionally,
a high pass filter 218 may be interposed between the
microphone 113 and switch 205 to remove low frequency
background noise. In a preferred embodiment, a high pass
filter having a cut-off frequency of approximately 300 I
effectively removes the low frequency background noise.
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The audio signals in the microphone audio path are
coupled from amplifier 213 to radio transmitter 201,
which in turn provides a radio signal for transmission to
the base station lo via duplexes 219. Radio signals
5 received from base station 105 are selectively coupled by
duplexes 219 to radio receiver 203, which demodulates
audio signals from the radio signal for application to
amplifier 217 and summer 221.
The hands-free control circuitry in Figure 2 also
10 includes a mobile party signal detector 223 and a land
party signal detector 225 for detecting the presence of
the mobile party voice signals and land party voice
signals, respectively. The mobile party and land party
signal detectors 223 and 225, include substantially
15 identical circuit blocks Both detectors 223 and 225 are
comprised of conventional circuitry including a
logarithmic amplifier 227 (commonly referred to as a
"soft" limiter an envelope detector 229, a smoothing
filter 230, a "valley" detector 231, a summer 233, and a
20 comparator 235~ The logarithmic amplifier 227 extends
the dynamic range of the envelope detector 229 due to its
amplification characteristic. The envelope detector 229
provides an output which follows the maxima and minima,
or envelope, of the audio signals. The smoothing filter
25 230 provides variable bandwidth low pass filtering
depending upon the binary state of the control logic 209
output. The valley detector 231 operates as a rectifier
which follows the minima of the envelope detector 229
output. The valley detector 231 output essentially
30 corresponds to the steady state background noise present
at the microphone 113 in the case of detector 223 or at
the receiver 203 in the case of detector 225. Summer 233
adds a reference voltage (OR) to the valley detector
231 output. This offset voltage OR is chosen together
35 with the rosins characteristics of the envelope detect
ion 229 and smoothing filter 230 such that the generation
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of spurious comparator output signals due to the
background noise encountered in vehicles is avoided.
Thus, the comparator 235 will only Provide an output
signal if the smoothing filter 230 output exceeds the
S steady state background noise by the magnitude of the
reference voltage OR. The output signal from
comparator 235 has a binary one high level when the
envelope detector 229 output exceeds the valley detector
231 output by the reference OR and otherwise provides a
binary zero level to control logic 209. The one level
from comparator 235 indicates that audio signals from
microphone 113 have been detected in the case of detector
223 and that audio signals from receiver 203 have been
detected in the case of detector 225.
Summer 221 applies a signal that is the sum of both
the audio signals from mobile radio receiver 203 and the
variable audio signals from audio switch 207 to land
party signal detector 225. Thus, the signal applied by
summer 221 to detector 225 varies as the volume of
speaker 115 is varied.
The control logic 209 in Figure 2 is responsive to
the output signals from the mobile and land party signal
detectors 223 and 225. The control logic 209 provides a
control signal for opening and closing audio switch 207
and audio switch 205 via inverting gate 237. When audio
switch 207 is opened, audio switch 205 is closed and vice
versa.
The hands-free speakerphone of Figure 2, therefore,
solves the echo problem by path switching, that is,
determining whether the speakerphone is to be
transmitting audio signals picked up by microphone 113 or
receiving signals from mobile radio receiver 203 by
providing Green in one direction and attenuation in the
other. A variable gain or path-switched technique such
as that used in Figure 2 is subject to a condition in
which the initial speech syllable from the path not
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switched is clipped before the signal detector detects
and activates the switch. Additionally, background noise
of sufficient amplitude in either direction can cause
blockage of a desired signal and cause confusion in the
telephone conversation,
Figure 3 shows a block diagram of a full duplex
speakerphone. A receive signal is conventionally
converted to acoustic energy by speaker 113 and acoustic
energy is converted to a transmit signal by microphone
115. Both the receive signal and the transmit signal may
be present simultaneously and the acoustic echoes, direct
or reflected, are canceled from the transmit signal by
adaptive filter 301 and associated subtraction network
303. The hybrid echo it similarly canceled from the
receive signal by adaptive filter 305 and associated
subtraction network 307.
The adaptive filter 301 synthesizes the linear
transfer function of the receive signal acoustic echo
path The input signal is taken from the receive signal
input to the speaker 113. The output of adaptive filter
301 is a representation of the receive signal via the
acoustic echo path, and it coupled to the subtraction
circuit 303 to cancel the actual receive signal echo. An
error signal from the output ox subtraction circuit 303
it coupled back to the adaptive filter 301 to produce a
convergence of the weighting and jilter coefficients used
by adaptive filter 301 to an optimum representation.
Adaptive filter 301 is a conventional nons~ationery
linear adaptive filter which will be described later.
The adaptive filter 305 synthesize the transfer
function of the electrical echo path. Its input is
connected to the transmit signal following subtraction
circuit OWE Based on the transmit signal input,
adaptive filter 305 supplies a signal representative of
the echoed transmit signal to subtraction circuitry 307.
Subtraction circuit 307 essentially cancel any transmit
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signal which is coupled to the received signal by a
mismatched hybrid. An error signal is coupled from the
output of subtraction circuit 307 to adaptive filter 305
to produce convergence of the weighting and filter
coefficients used by adaptive filter 305.
Thus, the adaptive filter 301 linearly synthesizes
the acoustic echo signal which is correlated to the
receive signal and the adaptive filter 305 linearly
synthesizes the electric echo signal which is correlated
to the transmit signal O A problem arises if the transfer
function of the echo signal is other than a linear
function. For example, electrical to acoustical
transducers such as speaker 11 3, typically have transfer
functions that are non-linear. The sound produced by a
speaker contains distortion. If this distortion is not
accounted ton in the coefficients of adaptive filter 301,
the distortion is not canceled from the transmit signal
and an echo consisting of the distortion is returned to
the far-end party.
To aid in canceling the non-linear products
generated in the electrical to acoustic transducer, the
configuration of Figure 4 has been developed In this
improvement of a speakerphone, a second microphone 401 its
added to sample the acoustic energy generated by speaker
113. This microphone 401 may be optimally positioned
between 1/8" and 6" from the speaker. The microphone 401
sample includes the transduction non-linearities and is
input to adaptive filter 301. Because the signal input
to filter 301 more accurately simulates the echo signal
input to microphone 115, a better echo cancellation is
achieved at subtraction circuit 303.
Some non-linearities may be predicted and a physical
implementation of the predicted non linearity may be
created. A non-linearity matching circuitry equivalent
to the speaker 113 transfer function non-linearity may be
used to sample the incoming received signal as shown in
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Figure 5. The physical implementation of the non-
linearity matching circuitry may vary depending upon the
type of distortion encountered. The simplest implemental
Shari used in a preferred embodiment is a series impedance
followed by a voltage variable resistor or varistor. As
the actual implementation may be a designer's choice, the
invention should not be limited to a particular selection
of components. The non-linear matching circuitry 501 is
coupled to the adaptive filter 301 such that the signal
used to create the adaptive filter coefficients is
processed to include the predicted non-linearities of
speaker 113. Thus, if the non-linearities can be
predicted and an implementation realized, thy sampling
microphone 401 can be replaced by circuitry 501.
lo Similarly, non~linearities introduced into the
electronic echo of the transmit signal may be simulated
by a non-linear matching circuitry 503. Thus
non-linearities such as those introduced in the radio
system by signal compression, amplitude limiting, and
on expansion may be factored from the receive signal by
adaptive filter 305 and subtraction circuit 307.
It has been shown by others that allowing the
adaptive filter to update the echo coefficients during
intervals when the desired signal is corrupted by noise
or when the signal energy is concentrated in frequency or
skewed, such as when single or multi-frequency tones are
present, the adaptive filter assumes a transfer function
which represents the energy skewed signal. These
coefficients may not be optimum for the remaining
frequency components of the signal to be canceled.
Consequently, a poor return loss path may be established
at frequencies which are not car celled by the adaptive
filter. This poor return loss can lead to undesirable
oscillations in the circuit.
To resolve this problem, the signal detectors
described in conjunction with Figure 2 may be employed to
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gate the determination of coefficients by the adaptive
filter. One such arrangement is shown in Figure 6. In
this embodiment, the analog signal is converted to a
digital representation of the analog signal so that
processing and cancellation of echoes may be simplified.
A receive signal from a mobile receiver or the receive
terminals of a four-wire to two-wire hybrid are digitized
by conventional analog to digital converter 601. The
digitized receive signal is then coupled to subtraction
circuit 307 which removes the near party echo from the
received signal. Thence it is coupled to conventional
digital to analog converter 603 and passed to speaker 113
via attenuator 604 and any necessary power amplification
(not shown). Analog to digital converter 601 and digital
to analog converter 603 may be realized with an
integrated circuit, MCKEE available from Motorola, Inc.
and including both functions. The land party signal
detector 225 determines that the received signal is a
signal which may be used to develop appropriate
coefficients for the adaptive filter 301. m e output of
the signal detector 225 is a binary detection signal
developed by comparing the instantaneous energy level to
the background energy level plus a threshold value. The
background energy level is developed by filtering the
instantaneous energy level. The filter in the preferred
signal detector embodiment is a "valley" detector
comprising an asymmetrical FIR filter with a slow rise
time, which may be on the order of 2 seconds, and a fast
fall time, which may be approximately 50 msec. The
valley detector tracks the background energy by slowly
rising while speech or other information is present and
then quickly falling back to the ambient noise level when
the information ends. By comparing the valley detector
output to the instantaneous energy, an indication is
presented to the associated adaptive filter 301 to be
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used to enable and disable the updating and modification
of the adaptive filter coefficients. Although the land
party signal detector 225 is shown and described as an
analog detector, this detector may be digitally
implemented and would sample the received signal prior to
digital to analog convertor 603.
The digitized receive signal is input to adaptive
filter 301 via optional non-linear matching circuitry
501. This portion of the receive signal is used by the
adaptive filter 301 to calculate filter coefficients
representative of the received signal so that the
received signal echo may be subtracted from the
transmit signal. The process used by the adaptive filter
301 will be described later. '
The transmit signal may be generated by voice or
other signal generating means and, in a speakerphone,
contains elements of the received signal acoustically
coupled from speaker 113 to microphone 115. This
composite transmit signal is converted to a digital
transmit signal by conventional analog to digital
converter 605 (which may be an MCKEE) before being
passed to the subtraction circuit 303. The coefficients
computed for the receive signal determine what fraction
of the composite transmit signal will be canceled.
Thus, the output from subtraction circuit 303 consists of
the near end generated signal and portions of the receive
signal echo not removed by the subtraction circuitry 303.
Part of this transmit signal is fed back to the adaptive
filter 301 to modify weighting factors applied to the
receive signal coefficients so that the amount of echoed
received signal removed is optimized. Thus the feedback
signal provides a dynamic correction to the amount and
frequency of the signal to be subtracted from the
transmit signal.
A portion of the transmit signal is passed to
adaptive filter 305 through optional non-linear matching
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circuitry 503 so that a similar cancellation process of
the echoed transmit signal may be removed from the
received signal. A mobile party signal detector 223 is
employed to detect the transmit signal in the presence of
noise and activate the coefficient determination of
adaptive filter 305. The input to mobile party signal
detector 223 may follow a transmit signal digital to
analog converter 607 (which may be an MCKEE) or, if the
mobile party signal detector 223 is implemented in
digital form, may precede the conventional digital to
analog converter 607.
It will be recognized by those skilled in the art
that if the duplex speakerphone it realized by digital
signal processing, all of the digital functions of Figure
6 Jay be implemented a part of a signal processing
microcomputer and appropriate processing method.
Furthermore, it is possible to combine functions shown as
discrete functions in Figure 6 into a single time-shared
function. One example of such sharing might be the
time-shared use of a single signal detector to accomplish
the functions of both land party signal detector 225 and
mobile party signal detector 223. Additionally, the
non-linear matching circuitry 501 may be gain determining
entries in a look-up table, chosen to match the speaker
113 distortion. Likewise the non-linear matching
circuitry 503 may be entries to match the radio system
distortion
An attenuator 609 follows the digital to analog
converter 607. This attenuator 609 and receive path
attenuator 604 are small value witched attenuators and
may, in the preferred embodiment, provide as little as
Orb attenuation to the respective signal. In the
preferred embodiment these attenuators are variable gain
amplifiers but may also be multiplication continuity in a
digital implementation and the invention need not be so
limited. The primary function of the attenuators is to
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keep the 8y3tem unconditionally tubule wince the adaptive
filters eliminate most of the system eye. Typically,
when one path alone has a signal, the attenuator in that
path is switched out and the attenuator in the Opposite
5 path is switched in. This selection of attenuators it
maintained when speech ceases. This process it known act
switch and stay. when both paths carry a signal, both
- attenuators are witched in. These low value sociably
attenuators in cooperation with the sign 1 detectors
10 permit simultaneous speech signals to occur without
detrimental effect.
Figure 7 it a block digger of adaptive filter 301
which may be used 'Jo cancel the receive goal echo from
the transmit signal. A virtually identical adaptive fit-
15 ton 305 it used to cancel the transmit signal echo from receive signal. The receive signal may be input Jo
the adaptive filter 301 via non-l~nesr matching circuitry
501 if such circuitry I desirable. The receive signal
it presented to a series of delay element shown as
20 3~gnal delay blocks 701, 703 and 705. Etch delay element
of the filter imparts a 125 microsecond delay to the
receive signal in the preferred embodiment 80 that time
delayed repack of the original digitized receive signal
ore available at the output ox each delay element. The
25 signal produced it the outputs of each of the delay
elements are adjusted by multiplying the delayed receive
signal by a feedback signal in multipliers 707~ 709 and
factored by a predetermined weighting factor at 713,
715, and 717; and combined in summing network 719. 'this
30 signal, which is the algebraic negative of eye receive
signal echo, is supplied to the subtraction network 303
Jo cancel the receive signal echo present on the transmit
signal. Since the receive signal may by speech
char~eterized by erratic signal levels and silent
35 intervals, mean for dusting the adaptive filter is
present via the feedback signal and amplifier 721. The
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gain of amplifier 721 proportionally establishes the
speed of correction by providing signal Jo be
mull plied with the receive signal at it delay
co1nponents to produce a signal whose polarity end
5 nutted in kowtow the appropriate correction for each
delayed *foment of ache received signal. my, if the
error signal feedback to the adaptive filter 301
indicates a suntan tat remnant of the echo in the
outgoing transmit signal, the amount of each delayed
10 received signal 18 individually adjusted to allow a
greeter portion of the received s~gnzl eon be pod to
the subtraction network 303. Inhibition of the
calculation of coefficient may be accomplished by . .
causing amplifier 721 to Pease pausing error corrections
15 to the weighting factor.
Thus for a radiotelephone it it desirable to by able
to communicate without having to use hand held
telephone handset. This it a basic photo improvement on
simultaneously operating a vehicle end communicating by
I radio It it also desirable to be able to communicate in
a full duplex mode thus voiding ~udlo path welshing
which con, at time, cause Cowan ion and blocking by
attempted slmult~neous talking. The present inven~lon
provide the means to carry on a nodal conversation end
25 a radio comr~unlc~ion system by the use of ~daptlve
digital future to cancel both the speaker to microphone
coupling in the vehicle end whatever echo Tao fried the
hybrid and the remainder of the communication system.
Therefore, while a particular embodiment of ache invention
30 has been described and shown, it should be derogated
eye the invention it not llmit~d thereto wince many
modifications may ye made by those skilled in the art.
It it therefore contemplated to cover by the present
application any and all such modifications that fall
35 within the true spirit and scope of the basic under-
lying principles disclosed and claimed herein.
